Did you know that a blog can earn more than $1,000 a month? For the first time in the history of blogging, the earnings of Craving Tech surged way past the $1,000 income mark in November 2010. The site had 101,987 unique visitors and 125,965 page views a month! A blog without traffic is like a theme park without any visitors. And without having any visitors, a blog can never make money. Creating a blog is really easy. What is tough is building a successful blog with significant traffic. Even the most fantastic website is totally useless if no one ever sees it. The fantastic website may reflect the investment of a lot of effort and money, with several pages of content, captivating sales and landing pages, onetime offer pages and the integration of social media and other buttons. But there needs to be focus on getting people to know about the site and encouraging them to visit it.
If your blog has traffic, you can begin converting some of those people into regular readers and then some of those regulars into customers. When you surf the net, you will see many services that offer traffic for relatively little money. The problem with them is that they are usually sending low quality traffic or, in other words, traffic that is non-targeted and irrelevant. Thus, you will end up paying for traffic that is largely worthless to you. It is better to avoid such services as they are not focusing on qualified visitors, i.e. visitors who have shown no interest in your domain or subject matter… they’ve just clicked because of some incentive.
Getting traffic, and that too relevant and targeted traffic, is an on-going task. Here are some ways to get traffic without having to pay for it:
1. Guest Blog
With just one post on a popular blog can give your own blog a great jumpstart. Apart from getting people to know of your blog, guest blogging is also a great way to earn early links and references back to your site. This can help in driving direct traffic and boost your search rankings. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ are great places to find guest blogging opportunities. You would have to contact blog owners and follow the guidelines for creating content for their blogs.
2. Promote Your Blog’s Url
Keep an eye open for different ways of making people aware of your blog’s URL. The most common way is to be active in forums and include the URL of your blog in your signature. You may also include the URL in your email signature and even on your letterhead. If you know of any blogs, websites and social media communities where discussions and content are being posted on your topic, you may popularize your blog there. While commenting on other blogs or forums, be sure to post something interesting and unique, so that you may grab attention and therefore draw attention to your blog.
3. Search Engine Optimization
Almost 85% traffic to any website is directed by search engines. Making sure your blog is optimized for search engines is therefore essential. It is probably difficult to witness any change in traffic initially, as search engine optimization yields results over time. Therefore, be patient in the near term and you are sure to enjoy huge dividends as your blog becomes more and more content heavy. You still need to do your homework around keyword research and optimize your posts, so that your blog ranks higher and higher for targeted traffic. Don’t forget to submit your blog to as many search engines as you can.
4. Incorporate a Theme
The power of a beautiful, usable and professional design can’t be overstated. But a majority of bloggers do not design the themes for their blogs. Sites that use default templates or have horrifying 1920s design will receive less trust, get fewer pages per visit, suffer from lower time-on-page and have a lower likelihood of being shared. Those that feature a stunning design that clearly indicates quality work will experience the reverse and reap amazing benefits. Thus, the demand for good themes is very high. If you can create a good theme that other bloggers start to use, you’ll begin seeing the links to your site really start to pile up.
5. Interrelate With Other Bloggers
Commenting on other blogs is a great way to get noticed, both by the blogger and by people reading the comments. You’ll get a special benefit from those who maintain a Top Commentators list too. Also, the sooner you comment on a post that later becomes very popular, the more visibility you’ll end up getting. Be conscious of the name you use when commenting and the URL you point back to. Consistency matters, particularly on naming, and linking to internal pages or using a name that’s clearly made for keyword-spamming rather than true conversation will kill your efforts before they begin.
Earning traffic isn’t rocket science, but it does take time, consistency and perseverance. Stick to your schedule. If you use the ways discussed above and apply them properly, you are sure to see a marked increase in the traffic to your blog.
About the author: Aliya Martin is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on luxury and technology. In her free time, she plays games on her cell phone. Being crazy about cars, she aims to own a showroom of automobiles sometime in the near future.
I’m on a good pace in driving traffic to my site but I know I could be doing more. I’ve read a lot of articles on blogging and many of them talk about guest posting. I haven’t tried it yet but will look into it. Thanks or the tips.
Search engine optimization and social media marketing are great ways to generate huge and relevant traffic to your site, which gives you more chances to conversion.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how to get visitors in a blog. This is really important that you connect your blog to other blogs and introduce through the help of other bloggers. I do agree that it is really important that your blogs gives you a chance to earn money and you can do it if you are going to find ways on how it can earn money. With the things you’ve shared for sure many inefficient blogs will be now efficient.
Yep, these are all bona fide ways of getting more people to read your blog!
Yeah, this list does works. It does not help you increase your traffic but as well help your brand to be promoted.
Earning traffic takes time, consistency and perseverance. it does come eventually, slowly but surely, your tips are freat by the way, will help a lot of people
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Nice and helpful blog for everybody. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Seo is really great thing for earn money from your blog.
Thanks
Prash patel
Well. I can really say that blogging is such an easy money. Thanks for sharing this.. Keep up the good work! 🙂
Thanks for sharing this great information on how to gain visitors in our blog site, at first all I know using back-linking is the best strategy on how to raise enough traffic for your site aside from that writing unique content to freshen up your site is an effective way to have many visitor.
I know that “Content is the King” is an old saying and that it’s a bit problematic, but I really believe that.
I’m taking myself for example. I read a lot of blogs, but I come back only to the most interesting ones.
Excellent information to get visitors to the blog. All are excellent points to implement while creating blog to cope up with this competitive business world. Thanks for sharing.
Nice post…
Valuable tips you posted here. Content is king then all these points must be considered to attract visitors to blog. Social media and link generating traffic to site.
Great Tips, I use many of them on regular basis.
it’s impressive how many good applications are there! and I am reading your article just now, that I’m preparing myself to begin to get visitors to our blog..
SEO is not simple at all and is by far the only thing that matters. Of course content also matters.
i know nothing about guest posting
thank you for bringing this to my attention
my experience says that blog commenting is very helpful for increasing ranking and social media networking is beneficial from visitors point of view
Great tips. I am also very optimistic about social network. I think human factor and interaction between each other is very important and gives good results.
Appearing at the top of any search engine result is good for your business since people are more likely to click on the first couple of links they see. However, this can be difficult to achieve, especially when you are competing against larger companies who have larger marketing budgets.
One of the fastest and easiest ways to drive traffic to your web site is through article marketing. This is basically where you write various articles and distribute them through numerous article directories.
The benefits of article marketing are two-fold. First, article marketing not only gets visitors to read your articles, but also provides the reader with an opportunity to go directly to your web site to get more information about your business. Second, article marketing can also help improve the ranking of your web site from the search engines.
In most cases, it’s a waste of time to submit your web site to various search engines these days, although you can do it if you want to. The reason is because if you follow the other strategies I’ve mentioned in this article to get inbound links to your site from other relevant third party sites, your site will get indexed automatically.
However, there are a lot of different directories that you can list your business in for free so that people can find you when they are looking for a certain type of business. So it’s worth taking a few minutes to search for popular directories in your industry that other people may use to find your type of business.
This is exactly what I’m doing now as I have just started my blog and I observe that I’m getting more visitors each day.
Raquel
excellent list, bona fide ways of getting more people to read your blog! can see you helping a lot of people with this post!
Thank you so much for that wonderful tips.I haven’t seen a complete breakdown before,thank you for sharing those valuable content.
There’s a lot of work to getting a blog successful. Its not as simple as just writing good content. That’s like having a great theme park and no visitors. So one of the many components of a great blog is the marketing online. But once a good deal of traffic is established and great content is created consistently your on your way. To gain perspective on what you would need to know to get your blog up and traffic to it, take a look at this top University;s
I have found these strategies very suitable for me because I’m just a new blogger and still learning more on how to make an effective blogging which will invite more visitors. This is the best. Thanks for the article.
Michael
Hey this was really interesting information you bought up in this article. Well I think there are many creative ways to increase traffic to your blog. I really appreciate your points and I believe this would surely help most of the bloggers. Thanks for sharing it.
I agreed with Jahnavi. Thank You!
Nice list.. I’ve tried a few of the methods, but none realy compare to just creating good content regular. Usually the vistors find good content eventually…
Thanks ,These are great ways for getting visitors to your blog ..Nice
Interrelating with other bloggers is very important in creating connections with them and building a network on the web.
Search engine optimization and social media marketing are great ways to generate huge and relevant traffic to your site, which gives you more chances to conversion.
It’s important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn’t mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.
I agree that creating a blog is easy but it’s not easy to get traffic especially for the newbies. I believe this post is really valuable. Thank you for sharing.
I think if you like to generate traffic the main key is to have an optimize blog. Proper keyword research is the first thing to do, and doing on-page and off-page optimization are also essential. You should also keep in mind that your content is something that the user will look forward to read, in this way you’re also creating relationship with them as they will regularly visit your blog to read your latest entry.
Also, the sooner you comment on a post that later becomes very popular, the more visibility you’ll end up getting.
Making sure your blog is optimized for search engines is therefore essential. It is probably difficult to witness any change in traffic initially.
Truly agree with your point. You need to practice on these techniques more in order to become more proficient in your niche. To increase your visitors to your blog you get several options. All you need is patience and have to work on this without giving up.
Great Stuff, Each and every point is good enough.
Search engine optimization and social media optimization best way for get more traffic.
Interrelating with Other fellow bloggers is what I found something new and innovative here. Such co-operation and union among bloggers may provide a big macro level growth for all.
Such a interesting news about the earnings from the blogs.. It makes me too greedy to create a blog.. But need to spend more n more time initially…
If you have a great site with good, quality content, you want a lot of people to benefit from it so you really need to work on bringing lots of traffic to your site. Thanks for the tips.
Perfect tips to get the visitors. I was looking for the exact tips which are simple and understandable.
Thanks so much for the great advice. I’m relatively new to blogging. You mentioned network, and I’ve definitely tapped into my professional and personal network through sites like Linked In and Facebook. That’s definitely helped to grow my readership, along with having good, quality content related to careers and discovering your passion. Thanks again for the practical advice!
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Social Media.
Blog is really great way to earn money easily just by posting interesting topics and increase more and more visitors on blogs. Above tips are very useful to earn money through money. Creating AdSense account for blog and earn money through advertisement is great way.
Awesome and very helpful post about the blog.Here are so many benefits to use blogs and the information you shared in your post is really worth to read.Is it really concern with the theme we using on blog to attract more visitors as well?
Excellent information to get visitors to the blog. All are excellent points to implement while creating blog to cope up with this competitive business world. Thanks for sharing. SEO is not simple at all and is by far the only thing that matters. Of course content also matters.
The fastest way to get a traffic for your site is guest blogging and second best proved way is to do on site and off site of the site under some keywords.A site is nothing if it has no visitors.
I can see 800 visitors per day in my webstat but just wandering conversion rate is really low. I experience this with an e commerce site. I think dealing traffic with blog site is different from e-commerce site where you really need conversion.
I agree with your points. Interrelation with other Bloggers as well as Search engine optimization is an important factor for driving traffic to our blog.
I think the most important factor is the quality of your articles and your partners.
I think all 5 stated methods are valid, but I would also suggest transcoding some of the blog posts and making them into videos. Optimized videos on YouTube and Google, I have found, are a great way to gather interest on your remaining blog posts.
I’m on a excellent speed in getting visitors or visitors to my website but I know I could be doing more. I’ve study a lot of content on running a blog and many of them discuss visitor publishing. I have not tried it yet but will look into it. Thanks or the guidelines.
The post highlights some great tips on how to improve blog rankings. It will take a lot of work to implement each and every point, but if accomplished, it would provide great results.I have got some more ideas from here.
Awesome and very useful post .The fastest way to get a traffic for your site is guest blogging and second best proved way is to do on site and off site of the site under some keywords.Social media can drive good amount of traffic.
Thanks for your post! This helped motivate me to write my own 5 tips on my blog. Except mine are different 🙂
Hi,
One more tactics I would like to include is integration of RSS feeds so user can use it and publish your article on their website and in return you will receive traffic.
Regards,
Brenda.
Thanks so much for the definitive advice. I’m relatively new to blogging. You talked about network, and I’ve certainly tapped into my consultant and personal network through sites like Linked In and Facebook. That’s certainly helped to grow my readership, along with having good, quality content related to careers and discovering your passion. Thanks again for the practical advice!
Being on top rank for Search Engine Optimization is really beneficial but it also takes a lot of effort to be on top. It is not an easy task and it requires certain time and effort even finance.
They seem like fairly easy steps to follow. Hopefully visitors to my website will increase as I have followed your post to the letter…
Thanks lawmacs 😉
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Hello, Lawmacs!
Using social media is a great way to leverage visitors to your blog. Sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, learni.st, and Reddit can all receive the link from your blog post, effectively getting you great traffic for free! Thank you for taking the time to compile this list of tips to help new blogs.
Getting traffic to my websites was always my biggest problem in internet marketing.
I could set up the blogs, do the graphics, create the content… but thats all for nothing if nobody decides to visit.
Getting traffic is an uphill struggle early on unless your willing to pay for it.
Start your traffic campaign by blog commenting and leaving valuable information on forums. Use social networking plugins on your website and ask your readers to share with their friends. It takes some time but it works.
Thanks for posting this interesting article.
Interacting with other bloggers is perhaps the most overlooked method to building traffic! I can’t believe how many bloggers think they shouldn’t link out to anyone else for fear of losing readers.